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May 16, 2022Liked by Tom Vandel

Tom, my wife lives some of the parts you have in your lines :-)

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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Tom Vandel

Beautiful! She can certainly overstay her welcome at times. I loved "her white fur coat tossed next to the door."

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The varying line lengths have a gentle storm-like quality.

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Tom, how did you know parts of my wife ?

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Excellent, well-done, brilliant, moving. Hoping not to offend or overstep, Tom, but the Ezra Pound in me would lose the first two lines -- without them the poem opens up a bit more. I'm a recovering editor, so you really should block me.

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She can be a bitch 😉

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It says it all, coolly eloquent

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